Classic / American English (Available February 2008) Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in the[...]
This series presents some of the best-known stories, retold in graphic novel format. Well-known villains and heroes take on new shape while staying true to their original authors.[...]
Are all the lights on? Is there a parent in the house? Are the windows shut and locked? "Double-check " They HAVE to be if you are going to read this book, which is undoubtedly the scariest rendition of one of the greatest ghost stories ever told: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." While you may have [...]
A headless horseman haunts Sleepy Hollow At least that s the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won t stop the town s new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing the hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side."[...]
A headless horseman haunts Sleepy Hollow At least that s the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won t stop the town s new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing the hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side."[...]
Ichabod Crane, a lanky, lean, superstitious school master, arrives to teach the children of Sleepy Hollow. As he vies for the attention of the lovely Katrina Van Tassel, his rival for her attention is the town rowdy, Brom Bones. Brom tries to scare Ichabod away with local superstitions and ghost tal[...]
This is a collection of essays and short stories written by Washington Irving. It was originally published in 1832 in the United States and revised in 1851. Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author and historian of the early 19th century. He served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842[...]
Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle" quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed[...]
Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those inhabitants nothing apart from death, disease and destruction. Yet for the Old World of Eu[...]